In this edited extract from his book, Fiction, Fact and Future: The Essence of EU Democracy, former MEP James Elles says that the EU's structure is often unfamiliar to Britons - something which is not helped by the failure of British leaders to explain it. They have also actively discouraged links between MEPs and MPs
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Following the Netherlands and France, Germany was the third of the original EU members to hold a nat...
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